Cloth, VG. viii+147pp, b/w frontis, a nice clean copy. Goldsmith (1731 - 1774) for a long time employed as a writer by Samuel Richardson made his mark with several novels & plays. She Stoopps To Conquer, a comic play full of rich characterisations about a young lad who is only comfortable talking with barmaids & not nice young ladies. Compications ensue when he goes for the hand of Miss Hardcastle.

literature, plays